The age gap and power imbalance, between a teenage athlete and a twice-divorced real estate tycoon more than two decades her senior, show's Trumps inclination to prey on teen girls.
Two Unidentifled "Models"
The other two girls, O'Donnell said, were introduced to casino staff as
"models." Security guards described them as "barely out of high school."
Neither has been identified.
At the time, Trump was running Trump Model Management, an agency later shut down amid reports that it was trafficking young foreign models (some as young as 14) on tourist visas, improperly coached them to lie to immigration officers, and forced them to pay expensive rents and fees, often leaving them financially exploited. Jamaican model Alexia Palmer filed a 2014 lawsuit claiming she was recruited at age 17 and paid only $3,880 over three years while Trump Model Management claimed she would make $75,000 annually. She described her treatment as akin to "modern-day slavery".
The agency operated in the mold of Elite Model Management, founded by Trump associate John Casablancas, a man accused of serial child rape and impregnating at least one 15 year old child model.
Casablancas operated child-targeted modeling events, and industry coverage confirms Trump appeared at some of these, including Look of the Year competitions, alongside Casablancas and producers of the events. Trump frequently praised Casablancas, publicly called him a friend, and even entrusted him to privately coach Ivanka Trump on modeling.

The age gap and power imbalance, between a teenage athlete and a twice-divorced real estate tycoon more than two decades her senior, show's Trumps inclination to prey on teen girls.
Two Unidentifled "Models"
The other two girls, O'Donnell said, were introduced to casino staff as
"models." Security guards described them as "barely out of high school."
Neither has been identified.
At the time, Trump was running Trump Model Management, an agency later shut down amid reports that it was trafficking young foreign models (some as young as 14) on tourist visas, improperly coached them to lie to immigration officers, and forced them to pay expensive rents and fees, often leaving them financially exploited. Jamaican model Alexia Palmer filed a 2014 lawsuit claiming she was recruited at age 17 and paid only $3,880 over three years while Trump Model Management claimed she would make $75,000 annually. She described her treatment as akin to "modern-day slavery".
The agency operated in the mold of Elite Model Management, founded by Trump associate John Casablancas, a man accused of serial child rape and impregnating at least one 15 year old child model.
Casablancas operated child-targeted modeling events, and industry coverage confirms Trump appeared at some of these, including Look of the Year competitions, alongside Casablancas and producers of the events. Trump frequently praised Casablancas, publicly called him a friend, and even entrusted him to privately coach Ivanka Trump on modeling.